Author: Anita Creamer

  • Online dating becomes more popular for seniors

    Patricia Newlin, 63, and Mike Mannix, 65, made a love connection on eharmony.com. After Mannix sent his first e-mail to Newlin, they talked incessantly before meeting. Newlin recently moved from Texas to Carmichael to be with Mannix, and they plan to marry this year.She’d had it with the whole online…

  • Sacramento area retirees cross Internet frontier in growing numbers

    Kathy Newman, 60, right, vents frustration Thursday during a computer lesson at Sacramento’s Ethel M. Hart Senior Center. Instructor David Hatter, 31, standing, offers advice as Carol Scott, 71, left, and Newman’s husband, John, 63, follow along. “I’m over my head already, just signing up for this,” says Scott. As…